Christian Right Labors to Find ’08 Candidate - New York Times
“There is great anxiety,” said Paul Weyrich, chairman of the Free Congress Foundation. “There is no outstanding conservative, and they are all looking for that.”
No, they aren’t. They’re looking for a Christian conservative, and that, as we learned the hard way with George W. Bush, is a different kettle of fish. Repeat after me: The President takes an oath on the Bible to defend the Constitution. He doesn’t take an oath on the Constitution to defend the Bible.
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On the same topic, here’s a video I can guarantee you Rudy Giuliani would prefer you didn’t see. Not exactly presidential:
http://minor-ripper.blogspot.com/2007/02/video-rudy-giuliani-does-not-want-you.html
The anxiety no doubt stems partly from the election debacle of 2006, in which the base proved it won’t turn out for empty-suit, posturing RINOs.
The Bushies and their ilk are so imperial, so entitled, so numb they think they can sell Romney to us.
Minorripper shows us once again how minor he is.
A christain conservative is no problem, if they are conservative and remember to “render unto Caesar” in respect to their service in office. By that I mean they are guided first by the constitution, then law and what is the right thing.
Genes, better he be able to show us his arguments (provided Bill has the patience to host them, that is), than he be silenced — as he is his own worst enemy to the point of view he wishes to advance.
Minor ripper irritates me because he uses this blog primarily to drum up hits for his own blog. Note that he is only tangentially on topic here for this post, and I have actually delected a couple of his posts that weren’t even slightly on topic, just put up in comments for the purpose of displaying the link to his own blog. He never links to me from there, by the way.
He may end up being banned, but it won’t be because I don’t approve of his opinions. It will be because I can’t stand his lack of manners.
And why not? Bush, his father, and Romney are all what used to be called “country-club,” or “Rockefeller” Republicans. Just because the Bushes moved out of the northeast doesn’t mean they aren’t still rich New England WASP GOPers. And Romney hasn’t even bothered to move.
They are not the Republican wing of the party. They are, in fact, its opposite. Rockefeller Republicans used to regard the party as their political club in government, where they used it to turn the powers of government over to the giant established corporations from whence they sprang.
Big business didn’t like Reagan because he wanted a less powerful, less intrusive government, and big biz wants a government that will give them stuff - which isn’t necessarily tax breaks, by the way. Big corporations don’t pay taxes anyway. Their customers do
What the big companies really want from government is monopolies, protection from competition, and government windfalls. The Bushes and their ilk cheerfully provide all three.
“Cheap labor,” too.
I guess sometimes I don’t say enough to get my thoughts(what few I have) across as that is much of what I meant. The rest is; what kind of person thinks that a video of two guys doing a comedy sketch isn’t going to be recognized as just that?
One day I might get up the gumption to start a blog, if I do I will be asking for constructive criticism from Bill and his associates.
It’s always made me laugh when people have chided me about my support for Reagan when they claim “religous conservative” after living through the Carter years. Carter was a “religious nutjob” (and yes the quotes are deliberate). Reagan was not perfect but I think (given I was in my late teens and early twenties) he recognized the Caesar unto Caesar principle of government. He used the “bully pulpit” to campaign for what he believed in but he never tried to legislate from the seat of power.
Carter tried to force his religious beliefs upon us and disguised it. The Christian religion can and will be used for both leftist and rightist pressure on our government.
I never felt that Reagan tried to force his beliefs, he tried to persuade.